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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Cleaning Lost Canoe Routes -Mark Vankooy

Cleaning Lost Canoe
Routes

By: Mark Vankooy

Rating:****

This article is about
a book published by Kevin Callan. Lost Canoe Routes is a book urging paddlers to
go out and find those routes that were abandoned by provincial and ministry
budget cuts. The author then goes on to
write how Kevin approached him at his workplace, Mountain Equipment Co-op ,
asking for his help to clean and re-open these lost canoe trail.

Him and his team at
MEC agreed wholehearted, and decided to clean at least two routes a year,
including cleaning up campsites, putting in new fire pits, clearing up portage
trails, and removing garbage. They decided to do this through their Social and Environmental
Responsibility Program. So far they've cleaned up twenty two sites and plan to
do many more!

I enjoyed this
article and urge people to read it so they become aware of the time and work it
takes to clean up these sites and to hopefully think next time and pack it in
and take it out, instead of leaving their trash to sit and taint the beauty of
the parks. This article is opening the eyes of the readers to new paddling
routes and with the users help we can maintain these once lost treasures of
Ontario.